Tiina Pursiainen RosenbergProfessor emerita
About me
Tiina Rosenberg is Professor Emerita of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stockholm University. She is the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts Helsinki and has previously served as Professor of Gender Studies at both Stockholm University and Lund University.
Research
Rosenberg has written extensively on performing arts, feminism, and queer theory. Her books include Byxbegär (Desiring Pants, 2000), Queerfeministisk agenda (Queer Feminist Agenda, 2002), Besvärliga människor: Teatersamtal med Suzanne Osten (Difficult People: Theatre Talks with Suzanne Osten, 2004), L–ordet. Vart tog alla lesbiska vägen? (The L-Word: Where Have All the Lesbians Gone? 2006), and Bögarnas Zarah: diva, ikon, kult (Queer Zarah: Diva, Icon, Cult, 2009).
Rosenberg is also the editor of Könet brinner: Judith Butlers texter i urval (Gender is Burning: Essays by Judith Butler, 2005) and Genus ogjort (Undoing Gender, 2006), and is the co-author of Teater i Sverige (Theatre in Sweden, 2004), written with Lena Hammergren, Karin Helander, and Willmar Sauter.
In 2012, Rosenberg published Ilska, hopp och solidaritet: Med feministisk scenkonst in i framtiden (Anger, Hope, and Solidarity: Carrying Feminist Performance Art into the Future), a study of contemporary feminist performance in Sweden. In 2014, she released Arvot mekin ansaitsemme: kansakunta, demokratia ja tasa-arvo (We Have the Values We Deserve: Nation, Democracy, and Equality), which addresses culture and democracy. Her book Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot: Essays on Feminism and Performance (2016) is available as Open Access at http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/baf.
Rosenberg's recent publications include Mästerregissören: När Ludvig Josephson tog Europa till Sverige (The Master Director: When Ludvig Josephson Brought Europe to Sweden, 2017) and HBTQ spelar roll – mellan garderob och kanon (LGBTQ Plays a Role: Between the Closet and the Canon, 2018). Together with Sandra D'Urso and Anna Renée Winget, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance (2021), which explores key queer and trans feminist theories in relation to contemporary performance. Rosenberg also co-edited Berätta, överleva, inte drunkna: Antirasism, dekolonisering och migration i svensk teater (Recount, Survive, Do Not Drown: Antiracism, Decolonization, and Migration in Swedish Theatre, 2022) with Rebecca Brinch and Dirk Gindt. Her latest book, Milestones in Feminist Performance (Routledge, 2024), was co-edited with Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Sandra D’Urso.
Rosenberg is a founding member of the Feminist Theatre Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP), and a member of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars (ANTS).